preferable

Example Sentences

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If you can swing it, check out local hotels for separate lodgings, which may be preferable to your overcrowded childhood home or sleeping on a couch in someone’s living room.

From Salon

But he said a default is preferable to allowing the federal government to keep spending money like “drunken sailors.”

From Seattle Times

Getting something from a thrift store or an online secondary market is preferable to something new.

From Washington Post

Those leaders would be well advised to sit down with Mr. Macron and explain why an alliance with the U.S., for all its flaws, remains preferable to the alternatives.

From Washington Times

"Medication abortion using mifepristone offers several benefits that might make it a preferable option over procedural abortion for people with few financial resources," Guttmacher Institute stated.

From Salon